Arts
Review: The Danish Girl
Director Tom Hooper beautifully captures the true story of Einar and Gerda Wegener’s marriage as the former begins to discover and unearth her true identity and the ramifications it has on the couple and their future. … read more
Review: The Revenant
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, this tale, inspired by true events, follows fur trapper Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) and his team as they work in treacherous territories to make a living. … read more
Review: Manimal & Automan: The Complete Series
Manimal & Automan not just simply old TV shows you can pull up on Netflix and giggle to, this is an actual investment for some lost television that has been unsoiled by the modern advances in special effects and film making. … read more
Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
My first experience in a movie theater was for a screening of Return of the Jedi. The original trilogy regularly played on my television, I wore a different Star Wars shirt to school every day for weeks and obsessively collected the action figures. So, you can imagine my reaction to the first prequel in 1999 as not being favorable, but let’s not get into that. … read more
Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq: This Is An Emergency
Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s latest satire-meets-agitprop, is incendiary, uneven and heavy-handed with the polemics, musical cuts and rhythm-centric dialogue. It’s also the most electrifying that we’ve seen from Lee in the past decade. … read more
Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXIV
If there’s ever a time to be an Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan, aside from when the show was actually on the air, it’s now. … read more
Review: The Night Before
In the vein of cult favorites like Bad Santa and A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Jonathan Levine’s holiday adventure lets the children sleep all snug in their beds while the adults drink, smoke weed and get all screwed up in their heads. … read more
Review: The 33
Anyone alive in 2010 most likely remembers the mining accident that occurred on Aug. 5, 2010, which buried 33 miners 2,300 feet underground and trapped them down there for 69 days. … read more
Review: I Need A Dodge! Joe Strummer On The Run
Nick Hall’s I Need A Dodge! is a brilliant tale that documents the largely unexplored period of Joe Strummer’s escape to Spain during the fall of The Clash. … read more
Review: Trumbo
Refusing to succumb to peer pressure, Trumbo and the Hollywood 10 were sentenced to prison, but they fired back by working underground under pseudonyms. … read more